Why design? Why not design?
Design and natural mechanisms, probability arguments, inference to the best explanation, revision criteria and an annotated reading shelf.
A SEPARATE READING CATEGORY
Philosophy
of origins
Causation, evidence and explanation: how should we reason from cellular organization to its history?
The system and machine articles describe biological mechanisms and their supporting evidence. This category gives the philosophical questions room for a fuller treatment: what an explanation must establish, when an inference is warranted, and what could change it.
Essays on origins and explanation
Before heredity: what can selection explain?
The prebiotic-selection objection: chemical sorting, persistence, competition, the origin of heredity, experimental achievements and explanatory limits.
Framework and assessment criteria
The 40 hallmarks of design in the cell
Otangelo Grasso’s proposed cellular criteria, their biological interpretation, overlapping dependencies, evidence boundaries and tests. The guide links both public framework manuscripts.
Philosophical conclusions should follow a stated comparison. The atlas presents the author’s design case while retaining competing mechanisms, uncertainty and revision criteria. A descriptive analogy, an open research problem and a demonstrated historical cause are distinct evidential claims.